About
William Thien
Mr William Thien is a consultant and trainer with EON Consulting & Training Pte Ltd (EON), a human resource consulting services and training provider providing a wide range of human resource management and development support services to companies in Singapore.
He is a certified Practicing Management Consultant (PMC, Bilingual in English and Chinese) with SBACC, a Certified Productivity Consultant (CPC) by SGPC and JPC, a Certified Workplace Learning Specialist (CWLS) by IAL and a Certified Career Advisor (CCA) by WSG. For his related work experience and contribution in the field of human capability development, William was recognised as a Specialist Adult Educator (SAE) by the Institute for Adult Learning (IAL) in 2016 under the AE Professionalisation Scheme.
William has worked in the shipbuilding, engineering and construction as well as the hotel industries. He carries a wide variety of portfolios, including recruitment & selection, compensation & benefits, performance management, employee industrial relations and training & development.
In his consulting and training work, he has worked with organisations in sectors such as the healthcare, social service, F&B, retail, logistics, sea and air transport, oil and gas, early childhood, and manufacturing in consulting and training projects in the areas of talent attraction, development and retention.
William is the key contributor for ‘The Hands On Guide – Human Resource Manager, Singapore’, ‘HR Letters, Forms and Policies, Singapore’ and co-author of the Singapore chapter of ‘Employment Law Asia’ published by CCH Asia Pte Ltd. He has also been an editorial advisor of the publication People Strategies.
Contributing back to the community, William has been the inaugural Chairman of the Special Interest Group (Coaching and Mentoring) at IAL’s Adults Education Network. He is also a member of the HR Committee at St Luke’s Hospital.
In recent years, he has been working with Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF) by integrated his expertise in talent management, productivity and workplace learning to help companies in redesigning jobs, workforce transformation and crafting career pathway for employees.